AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 The Dutch House Ann Patchett A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place Description Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish folly in small-town Pennsylvania taken on by his property developer father. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her delicacy, her brilliance. Life is comfortable and coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings, or under the cover of the draperies around the window seat in Maeve's room. Then one day their father brings Andrea home: Andrea, small and neat, a dark hat no bigger than a saucer pinned over a twist of her fair hair. Though they cannot know it, Andrea's advent to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. Her arrival will exact a banishment: a banishment whose reverberations will echo for the rest of their lives. For all that the world is open to him, for all that he can accumulate, for all that life is full, Danny and his sister are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own enforced exile is that of their mother's self-imposed one: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known. Told with Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives, and the lives of those who survive us. About the Author Ann Patchett is the author of six novels and three works of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The Magician's Assistant in 1998, winning the prize with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781526614957 recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one Format: Paperback of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty Dimensions: 0x0mm languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl. Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 The Dutch House 16 Copy Pack Comprising 16 copies of The Dutch House, plus a free reading copy Description About the Author Price: $479.84 $527.84 ISBN: 9781472996886 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 The Dutch House 32 Copy Pack Comprises 32 copies of The Dutch House, plus a free reading copy, plus a poster and a special POS item Description About the Author Price: $959.68 $1055.68 ISBN: 9781472996893 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 The Dutch House 48 Copy Pack Comprises 48 copies of The Dutch House, plus 2 free reading copies, plus a poster and a special POS item Description About the Author Price: $1439.52 $1583.52 ISBN: 9781472996909 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 Never Have I Ever Joshilyn Jackson It starts as a drunken game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. But Amy Whey did do something terrible when she was a teenager. And now the glamorous newcomer to her neighborhood wants a lot of money to stay quiet about it. Is Amy going to pay up or fight back? Description It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighborhood, knows exactly what that is. Roux promises she will go away. She will take herself and her son, who is already growing dangerously close to Amy's teenage stepdaughter, and she will go. If Amy plays by her rules. But Amy isn't prepared to lose everything she's built. She's going to fight back, and in this escalating game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner. About the Author Joshilyn Jackson lives in Decatur, Georgia with her husband and their two children. She serves on the board of and volunteers with Reforming Arts, teaching creative writing inside Lee Arrendale State Prison, Georgia's maximum security facility for women. Through their education-in-prison and re-entry programs, Reforming Arts fosters the development of critical and creative thinking skills, encouraging students to build liveable lives. She's also an award winning audiobook narrator, performing most of her own work as well as novels by Lydia Netzer and Marybeth Mayhew Whalen. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781526611581 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Raven Books AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 Never Have I Ever 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of Never Have I Ever, plus a free reading copy Description About the Author Price: $239.92 $263.92 ISBN: 9781472996763 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Raven Books AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 The Truants Kate Weinberg People disappear when they most want to be seen. During the first year of university, a group of friends discover the true cost of an extraordinary life in this captivating debut novel about obsession, rivalry and coming of age. Description 'A remarkably assured debut, deftly plotted and with vivid, compelling characters that leap off the page' JOJO MOYES 'One of the best books I have read in... forever' SCARLETT CURTIS 'Entirely gripping ... Combines the best elements of a crime thriller, a campus novel, a love story and a psychological study' ALAIN DE BOTTON 'The Truants teases, seduces and thrills but ultimately it's about the best kind of love affair allowing for the freedom to be yourself' MIRANDA HART Jess Walker, middle child of a middle class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour. Drawn into a tightly-knit group of rule breakers headed up by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy. Jess is thrown up against the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life? About the Author Kate Weinberg was born and lives in London. She studied English at Oxford and creative writing in East Anglia. She has worked as a slush pile reader, a bookshop assistant, a journalist and a ghost writer. The Truants is her first novel. Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781526600127 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 The Truants 8 Copy Pack Comprising 8 copies of The Truants, plus a free reading copy Description About the Author Price: $239.92 $263.92 ISBN: 9781472996770 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 2019 Very Nice Marcy Dermansky Conversations with Friends meets The Goon Squad. A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, liberalism and bad behaviour in the post-Obama era, Very Nice is a wickedly smart take on the way we live now. Description 'Very Nice is so sexy and reads so smooth that I was utterly addicted' MARIA SEMPLE, AUTHOR OF WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE? 'Everything you need in your new favourite summer novel' KEVIN KWAN, AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS 'Smart, sexy and funny ... Very Nice is her best yet' EMMA STRAUB, AUTHOR OF MODERN LOVERS Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but with his long eyelashes, silky hair and the sad, beautiful life he laid bare on Twitter, she does, and the kiss is very nice. Zahid Azzam never planned to become a houseguest in his student's sprawling Connecticut home, but with the sparkling swimming pool, the endless supply of strawberries and Rachel's beautiful mother, he does, and the home is very nice. Becca Klein never thought she'd have a love affair so soon after her husband leaves her for a younger woman, but when her daughter's professor walks into her home, bringing with him a poodle named Princess, she does, and the affair turns out to be - a very bad idea. An ingenious blend of sex, secrets and betrayal, Very Nice is a sharp, compulsive take on modern life from one of America's most exciting novelists. About the Author Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels Twins, Bad Marie and The Red Car. She lives in New Jersey with her daughter.